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We’ve been living in Pittsburgh for just over seven years, but I’m still quick to tell people I’m a transplant, in case they can’t tell by my New York mannerisms and accent. I often wonder if I truly feel like Continue reading The Day I Became A Pittsburgher (Published in the Times of Israel)
While dating and contemplating the formula for finding the right life partner, documentarian Brandon Gross relied on two life-long experts, turning the camera on his beloved grandparents. After all, what better source for hands-on advice on the subject of everlasting Continue reading A Review of the Movie, “On My Way Out: The Secret Life of Nani and Popi” (Published in the Journal of Educational Gerontology)
Every year on Yom Ha’Shoa, my grandmother, Miriam, who was not a Holocaust survivor, curled up in her overstuffed tan leather chair in front of her black and white TV to watch the rebroadcasting of the Eichmann trial. It was Continue reading “Operation Finale” Clarifies My Grandmother’s Eichmann Trial Obsession (Published in the Times of Israel)
While waiting for my niece outside a movie theater, my sister entertained herself and her 11-year-old son by walking up and down the aisles of the only store still open in that strip mall late on a Sunday evening. They Continue reading The Time My Nephew Washed His Hair With Nair (Published in Parent Co.)
“How can you send your son, and then your daughter in a few months into a hotbed of terror and deadly controversy?” I was stunned. I couldn’t recall asking her opinion when we bumped into each other in the baked Continue reading To the Mother Who Asked Me How I Can I Send My Child to Israel (Published in The Times of Israel)